Pine Valley had much of its original woodcover destroyed in 1799, ten years after the invasion by the first newcoming, mostly Catholic foreigners from Germany and Austria.
In 1813, more and more newcomers, be them Westphalians, Berliners or even Swabians (from various German regions), arrived via Ellis Island in order to start their lives anew. Another group of newcomers were Jews of various kinds.
At that time, Pine valley started to deal with making cuckoo clocks and yarns. But one family, the catholic Manns of Cologne, made money from making both of them all.
But in 1861 the town suffered the American civil War, as its most famous cuckoo clock and yarn family left it to start anew again, this time in Springfield.